How to Add Coolant to the Radiator; Your engine has a specific radiator fill procedure.; Failure to follow this procedure could cause your- Page 234

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How to Add Coolant to the Radiator

NOTICE:

Your engine has a specific radiator fill procedure.
Failure to follow this procedure could cause your
engine to overheat and be severely damaged.

See “Engine
Compartment
Overview” in the
Index for more
information 
on location.

1. You can remove the radiator pressure cap when the

cooling system, including the radiator pressure cap
and upper radiator hose, is no longer hot. Turn 
the pressure cap slowly counterclockwise until it 
first stops. (Don’t press down while turning the
pressure cap.)

If you hear a hiss, wait for that to stop. A hiss means
there is still some pressure left.

2. Then keep turning

the pressure cap,
but now push down
as you turn it.
Remove the
pressure cap.